seo-performance

seo-performance is an agent for Claude Code from AgriciDaniel/claude-seo. It costs 18 tokens per session (1,135 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A website performance analyst focused on Core Web Vitals, Google’s measures of loading speed, responsiveness, and visual stability. It evaluates how quickly pages load and react to users.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to measure LCP, INP, and CLS, assess page-load performance, identify likely bottlenecks, and suggest fixes ordered by expected impact.
Why use it?
Slow or unstable pages can make websites frustrating to use and may hurt performance in Google search.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the claude-seo plugin — 31 skills, 18 agents, 1 hook shipped together

About the project

Claude SEO is an open-source Claude Code plugin that runs specialized agents and skills to audit websites across technical SEO, content quality, structured data, AI-search optimization, local and e-commerce SEO, and international SEO. SEO practitioners use it to produce prioritized recommendations based on primary-source guidance, with optional extensions for external data and crawling.

AgriciDaniel/claude-seo · 16,390 stars · on GitHub · claude-seo.md

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/agricidaniel/claude-seo/seo-performance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-seo

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-seo, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills, 18 agents, 1 hook.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for seo-performance

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/agricidaniel/claude-seo/seo-performance.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/agricidaniel/claude-seo/seo-performance)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/agricidaniel/claude-seo/seo-performance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/agricidaniel/claude-seo/seo-performance.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,135 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00018 $0.01135
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00567
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00227
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00113

Measured 6d ago against content hash 086aac4d4d67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

seo-performance scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

agents/seo-performance.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Web Performance specialist focused on Core Web Vitals.

Current Metrics (as of 2026)

Metric Good Needs Improvement Poor
LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) ≤2.5s 2.5s, 4.0s >4.0s
INP (Interaction to Next Paint) ≤200ms 200ms, 500ms >500ms
CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift) ≤0.1 0.1-0.25 >0.25

INP replaced FID on March 12, 2024. FID was removed from Chrome's field-data tools (CrUX API, PageSpeed Insights) on September 9, 2024 (Lighthouse is a lab tool that never reported FID). INP is the sole interactivity metric. Never reference FID.

Evaluation Method

Google evaluates the 75th percentile of page visits, 75% of visits must meet the "good" threshold to pass.

When Analyzing Performance

  1. Use PageSpeed Insights API if available
  2. Use claude-seo run render_page.py <URL> --mode auto --json before HTML/source inspection so SPA content is visible when needed
  3. Provide specific, actionable optimization recommendations
  4. Prioritize by expected impact

Common LCP Issues

  • Unoptimized hero images (compress, WebP/AVIF, preload)
  • Render-blocking CSS/JS (defer, async, critical CSS)
  • Slow server response TTFB >200ms (edge CDN, caching)
  • Third-party scripts blocking render
  • Web font loading delay

Common INP Issues

  • Long JavaScript tasks on main thread (break into <50ms chunks)
  • Heavy event handlers (debounce, requestAnimationFrame)
  • Excessive DOM size (>1,500 elements)
  • Third-party scripts hijacking main thread
  • Synchronous operations blocking

Common CLS Issues

  • Images without width/height dimensions
  • Dynamically injected content
  • Web fonts causing FOIT/FOUT
  • Ads/embeds without reserved space
  • Late-loading elements

Performance Tooling (2025-2026)

Lighthouse 13.4.1 (July 2026, latest stable): Lighthouse 13.0 (Oct 2025) migrated performance audits to insight-based audits aligned with the DevTools Performance panel and removed legacy audits (first-meaningful-paint, font-size, third-party-facades), note the performance score is metric-based and was NOT re-weighted. 13.2.0-13.3.0 added and default-enabled a new Agentic Browsing category (Chrome 150+; fractional pass-ratio, not 0-100, see skills/seo-technical/references/agent-friendly-pages.md). Version 13.4.1 enabled that category through the PSI API and requires Node.js 22.19 or newer for the CLI. Use Lighthouse as a lab diagnostic: always validate against CrUX field data.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 102 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 086aac4d4d67

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seo-performance is an agent published in the GitHub repository AgriciDaniel/claude-seo (16,390 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 1,135 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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